{"id":2911,"date":"2004-10-11T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide\/"},"modified":"2004-10-11T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T22:51:07","slug":"you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"You can run but you can’t hide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHow Bush Won Round 2:<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

When the questioning turned to taxes, Kerry pandered with a liberal’s absurd promise not to sign legislation raising taxes on anybody making less than $200,000 a year, neglecting only to say,”Read my lips.”<\/p>\n

Kerry also blundered with a weird attack on an $84 item in the Bushes’ federal income tax return, supposedly from a timber business. “I own a timber company? That’s news to me,” said Bush, adding engagingly in what was the most natural moment in the debate, “Need some wood?” It turns out that Kerry relied on an Annenberg Web site that later admitted it had been confused, which left the Democratic candidate out on a hardwood limb. Bush was too much the gentleman to point out, now that their income taxes were in dispute, that Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid only 11 percent in 2003 on her $5 million income, while the Bushes paid 28 percent.<\/p>\n

(Although every Bush slip gets delighted examination – he called Kerry “Kennedy” and he said, “Internets”; can you imagine? – Kerry’s minor gaffes attract little notice. When citing his overseas travel in the first debate, Kerry talked of visiting the old K.G.B. headquarters “in Treblinka square.” He meant Lubyanka Square; Treblinka was the Nazi death camp. We all make mistakes.) …<\/p>\n

In an anguishing moment, Kerry said he was against partial-birth abortion (as are most voters, including many pro-choice) and then explained why he voted against the ban that is now law. Countered Bush: “He was given a chance to vote and he voted no. . . . It’s clear for everybody to see. And as I said, you can run, but you can’t hide.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like, totally.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Bush Won Round 2: When the questioning turned to taxes, Kerry pandered with a liberal’s absurd promise not to sign legislation raising taxes on anybody making less than $200,000 a year, neglecting only to say,”Read my lips.” Kerry also blundered with a weird attack on an $84 item in the Bushes’ federal income tax … Continue reading “You can run but you can’t hide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-KX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}